Oct. 31, 2024

Nightmare on Cell Block: Halloween Horrors from Inside Prison

Nightmare on Cell Block: Halloween Horrors from Inside Prison

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Jim examines the history of America’s most haunted prisons, with this Halloween special episode.  Jim also provides an update on the podcast's direction. Today he shares some pretty chilling tales from locations like...

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Season 6

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Jim examines the history of America’s most haunted prisons, with this Halloween special episode. Jim also provides an update on the podcast's direction. Today he shares some pretty chilling tales from locations like the Missouri State Penitentiary, Wyoming Territorial Prison, and Alcatraz. Each site carries a rich, eerie history filled with ghostly encounters. Additionally, Jim recounts unsettling violent crimes that occurred on Halloween and led to the incarceration of the assailants.

Timestamps
02:22 Changes to Real Life Real Crime Daily
08:45 Future Plans for the THIS Podcast
13:48 Halloween Special Episode
20:11 America's Most Haunted Prisons
37:24 Terrifying Convicts on Halloween
46:59 Happy Halloween

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Hm, I walk straight line shackle change, Oh doesome gird?

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It's calling my name? There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the hill Stream Game Wrangle three.

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I'm here by me to die inside these walls, inside

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the wild and went the girl as I'm.

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Hey one, and welcome back to Bloody and Goa, A

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podcast one and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's bloodiest Present. I'm Jim Chapman. And look,

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before I get into today's episode, I got a quick update.

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We're having some changes to Bloody and Goa. Now, if

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you listen to Real Life for a Crime Daily on Tuesday,

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Woody and I discussed some changes that are coming up.

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That show will be going away on the first of November.

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Hey everyone, and welcome to Real Life Real Crime Daily.

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I'm Jim Chapman.

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Name, what do you ever take?

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And this is part two? Because the lights just flickered

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on and off, so we're gonna.

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We never had that happening in all the years. And yeah, man,

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it's like Jim had a really good statement he said,

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and look there's no lighting, no storm outside or anything

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like that.

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Right, Yeah, well, uh you know what he's been talking

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about some changes coming and good changes for for the

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Real Life Real Crime Feed.

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So let's talk about that, all right.

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Well, the you know, we've been doing this for a minute,

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the h and we've had a lot of fun, uh,

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you know, a lot of great things that have happened

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the book. You know, you've been super successful. Also during

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the meantime, you have one of the top shows in

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the world now it.

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Scandals Files of the Elite, So thank God forbidding. Yeah right,

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y'all go check that out.

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But y'all the business side of things, like when Jim

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and I saw at the show, it was just jem

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and I and then we got a go involved, and

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you know, things transpired and what have you. Uh, But

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you're always trying to improve, improve, seek seek seek different

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avenues and different things and some things work and some

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things don't, and some things, you know, they are what

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they are. But the I'm bringing we did the daily

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show when the Real Life Crime Original feed and then

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the wow was a you know, sad thing too, and

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all that of just bringing the relifful crime back to

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relifeul Crime.

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Yeah, and mainly the I decided that.

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The hashtag justice for series is going to be a

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big part of what I do going forward, which is

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I'm actually I had shied away with it for so

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many years because it takes so much. But the I'm

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actually going to help these families, and I've have cases

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lined up, et cetera. But it's boots on the ground.

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Show and that's and that was the point I was

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I was trying to make earlier before we had the

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hiccup here.

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But uh, you know, a lot of.

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These shows, especially these cold case shows, and at no

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fault of the people who host them, they just don't

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have the experience of the knowledge to actually investigate these cases.

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bring awareness to it. And that's important and that's good.

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real life real crime or a hashtag justice for brings

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to the table is that those shows, it's actually investigating

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it with an investigator that is night and day.

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If it's it's I think you're right.

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The difference is the personal connection and I sit with

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these families, they become my families, and it's hard and soul.

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And you're invested in it. And at that time when

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you get emotionally invested.

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In see this, look y'all.

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The best ship that we ever do is unscripted. I'm

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going to get to my current he's.

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And we were just talking. Damn it, I don't even

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know how to do this. Go ahead and find that

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and them entertained sing to them.

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We were talking about before we came in here. However,

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we're going to tell you all what we had to

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tell tell you the And then we're like, you know what,

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since the beginning, we've just been rolling unscripted. People would

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come in to interview or whatever, and we'd be like, no,

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the uh, don't tell us save a friend there, because

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you never know what's going to come out behind the microphone.

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Now, oh wowe picture. He's showing a picture of a

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beautiful girl.

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up and the last thing I see before I go

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to bed. Yeah, And it was courting, and Coco was

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the same way. Miss Stephanie had sent me her cheerleading

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picture and her high school graduation picture. And that's my

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that's my actual case files that on that late yellow

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legal pad yeah. I spend that every night, you know,

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before I go to sleep, right, taking more notes on

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different things.

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post Show's case, and I wasn't gonna do it.

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I wasn't gonna do it. I didn't want to, you know,

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and everything like according to Coco's And then finally that night,

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you know, life has been reached out to me, and

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to the sister. It's one of my good friends. And

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you know, I can't tell mama no, right, Mama Careen,

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story and then send me the picture and I said,

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let me call you back. And I showed it to

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my wife and she said, how can you not use

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your gud giving gifts in your platform that he gave

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you to not go solve us girls homicide? And we

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did it, but I hadn't done one since. But we're

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gonna I'm going in that direction, y'all. There'll still be

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real life for crime originals. And but the hashtag Justice

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four is a lot and like this case is out

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of Atlanta, this one, and even then Louisiana and I

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had boots on the ground Atlanta.

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Gonna be an ongoing thing. And and you've got a

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And I love doing the Daily Show.

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It's you know, it's going to y'all, it's gonna be

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on its own feed.

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those past episodes, the past episodes will be on a

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Right right, But I mean, like the basically this is

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like the Swan song, you know, for Daily and it's

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it's a sad thing, but it's it's kind of an

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exciting thing too because the uh, you know, the future

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is right and Jim and I are still gonna be

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working together on things with the you know, love them

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more than anything in the world. Uh, it's been a great,

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great run, but it's just time to yeah. Yeah, and look,

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you're rolling hard too, And I know that you're rolling.

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I always said you were the hardest working man the

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show business, but now you really are.

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And I get that to you. And you know, it's

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it's it's been great.

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Bright Yeah, yeah, it has and and uh, we've been doing.

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You know, we've been working together for four years or so,

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coming coming close to five, and we're continue to.

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Work together on some on things that it's you know,

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we're always I will always be.

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Accessible to you, and I know you will always be

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accessible to me. Yeah.

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Uh And we know people out there, you know, some

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people what happened with Jim.

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And that the same one that ain't the case is

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past with any I've had, you know, people that we're

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associated with the show that that some of them just

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had to be go right and and some of those

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were definitely from Yeah, some of them were just business

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and some of them were kind of the farious, but whatever,

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that is what it is, and it's done. And I

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wish just people well, but this is not one.

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That if it could be avoided time wise and stuff,

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and it would be, but it just can't. And I

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think that you know, we're going to both continue to

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go on and do great things, uh yeah together, Yes,

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but certainly I can't wait to see. I know you've

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got a lot of stuff in the works and a

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lot and.

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They got that too, uh uh so, but you'll always

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been hell of right boy. It has and.

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I'm a miss coming in and getting my f fau

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and on the way and coming in the morning was.

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Cold or hot and yeah, and you know, well we'll

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still maybe every now and then do an episode together

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or something if if time permits for for both of us.

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really with this type of industry, it's it's something that

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you have to constantly evolve, and you have to really

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pay attention to what your audience wants and real life

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for Crimes evolving and and uh, in some ways it

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is going back to its roots, but in some ways

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is you know, original content that uh features Woody Everton.

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As it should. Uh. That's how it got started exactly.

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I've always been that guy, you know, like you hustler,

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you want to branch out and.

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Do and do and do.

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But you know, I don't think people understand it's so

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much more, uh.

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Than just podcasts. It's all the.

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Social media and the pages and you know, you know

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you're in, yeah, the research, and but even like just

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something simple as going uh and checking from me going

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and checking the Real Life Real Crime Daily Facebook page.

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At the end, when I've got seven other Facebook pages,

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Check you know, and and.

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I know you know you always kept that up and

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you did the posting and everything else. It's just so

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much more, uh than podcasts. And I'm not complaining. I'm blessed,

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no doubt about it, and blessed by way beyond anything

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that I ever dreamed of. And and we were blessed

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on the Daily Show, I mean all the way around,

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a lot of fun. You and I didn't have any hiccups.

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But there were some hiccups in it. I think everybody

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knows about that, but you know, and the ship got

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worked out and it is what it is.

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But you know, I don't know. I'm I'm missing to

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be there. And we'll let y'all know. I don't know

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what we call that feeding. I guess the Daily Show,

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I don't know, but the it'll be anywhere you can

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listen to a podcast. Yeah, yeah, so if you know

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it won't be on we'll put a rink put on

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our socials and stuff of the.

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It won't be on the Original Life Real Crime Link anymore.

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Yeah, you'd have to go to that, and it will.

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It won't be the Daily Shows.

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Won't be updated on that feed.

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There may be some things I don't know that are

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placed on there, but the Daily Show won't as you know,

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it won't be on that right.

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But you know, y'all have been great in true classic form.

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Love and appreciate each and every one of y'all, and

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thank you for listening and liking and sharing. And you know,

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jim my brother from another mother. I love features so bright.

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We gotta wear shades.

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And uh, we were so busy. We got to hire

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some people. And that's a good problem. I had turn

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the lease. We are busy. That's a good problem to have,

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and more busy because of y'all.

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h when I started this with real life or a

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crime way back in the day, uh, it was.

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Just to help and and uh, you know, do what

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local leaders, you got Scandalous, you got got you know,

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soap producing so many different.

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That I was talking about earlier, Like we're talking about

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branching out, expanding, and you know my daddy says about that.

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What eediot, you got it or you don't. You got

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the driver, you don't and it doesn't. You know, this

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is not a failure for the Daily Show because the

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numbers were still there and everything else. It's a it's

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a it's a failure on time. And uh, I don't know,

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he's spent a time and circumstances I guess in in

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wanting to and going to branch out and in these

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Wood he does it, which is totally different than any

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other podcast or does it. Uh, it requires a lot

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hard to turn your brain in another direction anytime you

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get emotionally invested with something, So you know, that's a

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big That's a big part of it too, is uh,

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you only have twenty four hours in a day, so

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you know you'll still be getting entertaining content from from

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everybody that's ever been affiliated.

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With this show to just being in a different way

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and form. Right, Uh, it's gonna be really, it's gonna

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be love. It's me something to see, I'm no doubt about.

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It's sad, sad, but excited and blessed you know, to

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have done this and the watch it growing morph.

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real quick. So Bloody and Gola, which is more of

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a passion for me and more than anything else. We

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both just love that history. Well, we love history and

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historical prisons.

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done a lot with that history. Yeah, and it's still

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a good signal to both of us that our time

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so if you know, continue to listen to it and

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and what do you be on there? We'll try to

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get him on every every couple of months or every

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he told me, uh, I saw him at a dove

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hunt and he said he said, uh, he said, man,

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it ain't the same. He said, I can't. He's an

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ex something up there. He said, I can't just do

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it like I used to because all the changes are

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coming down and administration and you headed the department and whatever. Yeah,

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whatever system of being worked on. And there'll be a

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million stories that can come from that.

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Yeah, there's no doubt about it. So, uh so we're

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gonna keep as many shows around as we can, and

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we know y'all love that stuff, and uh they'll be

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there'll be more upcoming. I'm looking forward to it, I

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think real life. Look, I was a fan first, right,

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you know, before I ever got affiliated with the show.

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I was a fan of the show.

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And I appreciate it and I love you much and

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yeah it's been fun, bro, but it ain't. We ain't

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done now we all right? Well, all right, peeps, so

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now you got the inside scoop. You got inside scoop

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and love I guess so one time I love and

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appreciate each and every one of y'all, and thank you

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for liking and listening and sharing and hey all that

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good podcast.

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Podcast or shit.

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Until next time. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm what do

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you Everton. We are your host of Real Life, Real

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Crime Daily Peace Booms. So there it was some changes

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coming to obviously several things that we do. But one

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thing that is not going to change. Bloody Ain't Goola

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is not going anywhere. And coming up, we're going to

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focus on some series episodes with Bloody Angola that I

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think are going to knock your socks off, So get

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And look, it's Halloween. This is a Halloween special episode.

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the way prior to bringing you this, and it'll be

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a little abbreviated compared to the length of our normal episodes,

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because I know all of you either want to get

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out there with your kids and trigg or treat or

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maybe you are like me and your kids are grown,

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but you hand out candy and you enjoy seeing all

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the cool costumes and stuff like that, and I want

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you to be able to get to that. I've got

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some really fun different stuff for you. You know, with

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all these crime shows, we talk about a lot of

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things that are disturbing, for lack of a better term, sometimes,

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little bit funner, a little bit lighter, I guess you

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could say. But with Halloween it's also a little bit scarier.

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And let me tell you, there is nothing out there

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better than a haunted prison if you're someone that's into Halloween.

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And so I kind of compiled a top ten list

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of the most haunted prisons in jails in the United States,

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and I'm going to start with number ten and work

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my way backwards and kind of give you a little bit,

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just a couple of paragraphs of a history on each

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of these. So today I'm going to be like the

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David Letterman, the top ten list of Halloween podcasts.

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So here we go.

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Number ten, Missouri State Penitentiary. Now that's in Jefferson City, Missouri.

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And believe it or not, the Missouri State Penitentiary is

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known currently as the Walls they copied off of Louisiana

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State Penitentiary.

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Y'all, we were the Walls, how dare they? So?

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It's also known as the Walls and was constructed in

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the early eighteen thirties to serve the newly emitted state

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of Missouri. The earliest prisoners made the bricks that the

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first walls were built from, which was common during that

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time prison labor.

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The initial prison population consisted of one guard, one warden,

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fifteen prisoners, and a foreman for the brick making operation

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with an assistant. Eleven of the fifteen prisoners were from

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Saint Louis and all were incarcerated for larceny theft, except

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for one who was in for stabbing a man during

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a drunken brawl. Needless to say, that prison grew many

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times over the years. It eventually closed, but get this

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two thousand and four, so it had a long history.

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During its operation, it saw many infamous prisoners, including Charles

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pretty Boy, Floyd, James Earl Ray, Bobby Greenlease, kidnappers Carl

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Austin Hall, and Bonnie Haiti. They were actually executed at

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that prison. In nineteen fifty four, there was a major

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riot at the penitentiary, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the

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National Guard from Missouri, and the police departments from Jefferson City,

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Saint Louis and Kansas City were called to help stop

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that disturbance. And when it was all over, four inmates

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had been killed, twenty nine were injured, and there had

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been one attempted suicide. During the riot, four guards had

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been seriously injured, and several big buildings have been burned.

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During its operation, forty inmates were executed in the gas chamber.

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Time magazine once called it get thus the bloodiest forty

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seven acres in America. They're copying off of Louisiana State

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Penitentiary again, except for we're a hell of a lot

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more than forty seven acres around here now. Since its

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closure of the penitentiary has become a hotspot for pair

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and normal activity. Staff members and visitors actually reported dozens

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of eerie encounters with lingering spirits which had been seen, heard,

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and encountered firsthand. So that's number ten on the less

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number nine Wyoming Territorial Prison. That's in Laramie, Wyoming. The

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westward expansion of the railroad brought more than money in

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high times to the people of Laramie. It also brought

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a score of unsavory men and women in a crime

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rate that rivaled much larger Eastern cities. As a result,

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the why Yoming Territorial Prison was built as a federal

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penitentiary in Laomie in eighteen seventy two. The facility was

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plagued with problems from the start, with a fire in

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eighteen seventy three and a number of escapes.

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Of the forty four.

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Prisoners accepted in the first two years of the operation,

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eleven escaped. By eighteen seventy seven, the prison was overcrowded,

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and as its reputation worsened, changes were made in A

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second sale block was constructed. It became a state prison

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from eighteen ninety to nineteen oh one. There were at

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least five sales for female inmates and several solitary confinement cells.

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Soon to be famous outlaw Butch Cassidy was incarcerated here

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from eighteen ninety four to eighteen ninety six. After its

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closure in nineteen oh three, the prison was given to

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the University of Wyoming, which used it for livestock breeding

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experiments until nineteen eighty nine. It opened to the public

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as a hit historic site two years later and stories

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of ghost begin to circulate. With more than one thousand

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inmates housed there over the years, it's to be expected

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that some of the prisoners of guards might linger behind. However,

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there's one prisoner who is more active than the others.

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His name is Julius Greenwald, and he was sent to

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the prison for the eighteen ninety seven murderer of his

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wife and prison Loar states that Greenwald was adept to

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making cigars and convincing prison staff to allow him to

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make and sell cigars while incarcerated. He allegedly made the

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cigars from his cell on the third floor, a cell

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that was removed during renovation of the site. Allegedly, Greenwald's

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spirit did not appreciate this at all, and he has

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manifested as a phantom cigar smell at the prison ever since.

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How about that.

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And we're going to get to number eight, and that

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is West Virginia Penitentiary that's in Moundsville, West Virginia. In

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that the prison was built on the edge of Moundsville.

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This was in eighteen sixty six. The prison remained open

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for one hundred and twenty nine years, and it finally

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closed down in nineteen ninety five. During that time, the

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structure housed thousands of prisoners. Many lost their lives there

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through both state sanctioned executions and during prison violence. Since

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its closure, the prison had become one of the most

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haunted sites in the country. Staff members and visitors alike

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have reported ghosts in the north Hall, where the most

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dangerous inmates are housed, and the execution chamber, where Old

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Sparky sent many to its early grave, and the whole

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a brutal solitary confinement area that often drove inmates to

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insanity and suicide. Ghost Hunters have flocked to the former

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penitentiary over the years, and visitors claimed to have experienced

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the sound of phantom footsteps, voices, noises that have no explanation,

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cold chills, and an overwhelming fee of panic.

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How about that?

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And we're gonna go up pot of Watamee County Jail.

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And this is in Council Bluff's, Iowa, And it was

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built in eighteen eighty five, and that jail is one

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of the most unusual houses of incarceration in America. The

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jail has a three tier cell block with ten cells

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on each tier. It was originally designed to rotate continuously

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throughout the night by means of a water wheel in

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the basement, so it earned the nickname of the squirrel

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cage Jail. In this way, all the prisoners could be

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watched from a central location. Unfortunately, the forty five ton

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cell block was simply too heavy to work right, and

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it became stuck frequently. Eventually, the jailers gave up on

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the plan and the nightguard had to be hired. The

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cylinder continued to be used until at nineteen sixty when

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a prisoner died in his cell and the cell block jammed,

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trapping the body in the cell for several days. After that,

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cell door were cut into every cell. The jail was

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closed down in nineteen sixty nine, and during its history

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four deaths occurred within its walls. One man died of

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a heart attack, another in a fall when he tried

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to write his name on the ceiling. Another hanged himself

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in a cell, in the last after an incident in

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which an officer actually shot himself in the confusion of

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protecting the jail from an angry mob during the farmer's

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Holiday strike of nineteen thirty two. It's no surprise that

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these unlucky individuals along with others are believed to still

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linger that jail, and we'll go to Crown Point, Indiana

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00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.559
in Lake County Jail, and the Lake County Jail is

478
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.240
located in the county seat of Crown Point. It was

479
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:48.039
built in nineteen oh eight and enlarged twenty years later.

480
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.519
At that time, county sheriffs were required to live at

481
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:54.920
the jail, and so the combined residents in jail included

482
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.519
all the facilities needed for its purpose as a law

483
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:02.880
enforcement institution. Located within the walls where the family's living

484
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:07.279
area warden's residence, department offices, one hundred and fifty cells,

485
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:13.720
maximum security accommodations, institutional kitchen, food storage, heating and cooling systems.

486
00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:16.559
They even had a barber shop and a garage. It

487
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.319
was considered to be one of the finest in Indiana

488
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.880
and it was thought to be escape proof. However, on

489
00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:27.480
March third of nineteen thirty four, gangster John Dillinger proved

490
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.079
it to be otherwise when he made a daring escape

491
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:33.759
that gave the jail its infamy. The jail remained in

492
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.400
operation until the nineteen seventies, when it became a historic

493
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.599
site as restoration has continued over the last twenty years.

494
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:46.000
Stories have emerged about the haunting in the jail. Apparitions

495
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:49.599
have been seen in the sales and corridors, Strange photographs

496
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.359
have been taken, doors open and closed by themselves, lights

497
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:57.000
turn on and off, and dis embodied footsteps and voices

498
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:04.039
have often been reported by volunteers and staff alike. Pretty freaky.

499
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:06.880
And We're going to go to Chicago, Illinois, and I'm

500
00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:09.599
gonna tell you about a haunted police station. It's known

501
00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:13.279
as Maxwell Street Police Station. And this police station is

502
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:16.720
known as Bloody Maxwell. How about that because of the

503
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:20.599
escalating crime rate in the area. It was constructed in

504
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:24.359
eighteen eighty nine, and at that time, the surrounding part

505
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.480
of the city was home to thousands of Italian immigrants,

506
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:32.359
including the Jenni brothers, who partnered with al Capone's organization

507
00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:37.319
during Prohibition to make bootleg liquor within blocks of the

508
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:44.079
police station. It became a notorious police station known for corruption, bribery, brutality,

509
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:47.960
and torture, and many law breakers never left the basement

510
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.640
dungeon quote unquote alive. The station closed down in nineteen

511
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.359
ninety seven and became to be used by the security

512
00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:00.440
officers for the nearby University of Illinois Chicago campus. It's

513
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.799
currently been used for filming of the television show Chicago PD.

514
00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:08.880
Although the cops and criminals of the station's passed are

515
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:13.319
long gone, legend goes they still linger there, especially those

516
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:16.880
who brutalized and killed and were killed in the dungeon.

517
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:21.759
Screams have been reported coming from the basement, along what moaning, crying,

518
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:26.960
and the sounds of rattling bars and handcuff chains. Ohio

519
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:32.359
Penitentiary and this was formerly in Columbus, Ohio. This penitentiary

520
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:35.920
was opened in eighteen thirty four and first condemned by

521
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:39.759
reformers in the early nineteen hundreds. It was not closed

522
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.079
down until nineteen seventy nine, and the prison has since

523
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:47.480
been demolished, but haunting memories of it remained. During its

524
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.240
years of operation, the prison saw scores of death from fire,

525
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:56.359
outbreaks of disease, murder, and executions in the state's electric chair,

526
00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.680
but nothing matched the horror of the fire that in

527
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:04.079
golf that prison in April of nineteen thirty. This fire

528
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.640
swept through the West block of the penitentiary. It killed

529
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.839
three hundred and twenty two inmates in a single night.

530
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:15.039
While the prison was still open, inmates complained of ghostly

531
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:19.079
sightings and eerie happenings, but when the buildings were finally

532
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:24.440
torn down, tails quickly spread of apparitions among the ruins. Eventually,

533
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:27.960
the prism was replaced by a sports arena, which is

534
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:33.200
also rumored to be haunted. Stay away from Ohio Penitentiary,

535
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.640
and we're going to stay in Ohio, but we're gonna

536
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:39.079
go to Mansfield, Ohio for this one. And this is

537
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:43.960
Ohio State Reformatory. And the Ohio State Reformatory was actually

538
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.680
made famous by the Shawshank Redemption, which was filmed there.

539
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:50.440
Was opened in eighteen ninety six as a prison for

540
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:54.720
criminals too old for juvenile facilities and not hardened enough

541
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.279
for the penitentiary. It saw untold thousands of prisoners during

542
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.440
its years of operation, and while once applauded as a

543
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.319
place to be humanly reformed for first time offenders, the

544
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:10.559
conditions deteriorated to the point that it became known for abuse, torture,

545
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:16.440
and murder. Already considered overcrowded in humane by the nineteen thirties,

546
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.279
the massive prison was kept open until nineteen eighty six,

547
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.839
even after a federal lawsuit was filed by the inmates,

548
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.839
citing that it was unfit for human occupation. Since the

549
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:32.279
closing of the reformatory, stories have circulated that it is

550
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:35.920
haunted by the tormented spirits of former inmates, guards and

551
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:40.079
prison officials who simply never left. Apparitions take place in

552
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:45.799
the cells where the inmates once lived, suffered, and sometimes died.

553
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:49.839
One of the resonant ghosts is reported to be Helen Gladoc,

554
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:54.039
the wife of Arthur Gladick. She died at the local

555
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:57.599
hospital in nineteen fifty after a leaded handgun fell from

556
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:01.039
a closet shelf in the wardens of apartment and went off.

557
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:04.480
Her spirit has allegedly remained in the apartment ever since,

558
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:09.400
often manifesting as the smell of perfume.

559
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.599
Spooky.

560
00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.920
Now, I'm going to give you the top two and

561
00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.880
we'll start with number two and you probably expected this one.

562
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:23.559
Alcatraz in San Francisco, California, The Rock, the name given

563
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:27.760
to Alcatraz Penitentiary, was the ultimate American prison. It was

564
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:31.679
the place where scores of the country's worst criminal offenders,

565
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.400
blood letters, bad men, and escape artists called the end

566
00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:39.000
of the line although it started as a military prison

567
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:42.199
for twenty nine years, the prison kept the country's most

568
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:48.360
notorious lawbreakers, including al Capone, Doc Barker, George, Machine Gun Kelly,

569
00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:52.599
and others confined behind stone walls. The initial prison was

570
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:56.840
built in eighteen fifty nine, but fell into disrepair by

571
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.880
the nineteen twenties. It was reopened in nineteen thirty three

572
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.719
to be an escape per federal prison, and it was

573
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:08.239
the brutal place of punishment and confinement with few privileges, Suicide, murder,

574
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:12.920
and even insanity became common. In nineteen forty six, several

575
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.280
inmates attempted a violent and bloody escape from the rock,

576
00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:19.519
but failed. There were a handful of other attempts, but

577
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.480
only one successful attempt. In nineteen sixty two, Win three

578
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:27.199
bank robber, using handmade rubber rafts and dummies with real

579
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.480
human hair, vanished into the dark waters of the Bay.

580
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.760
Alcatraz was closed down one year later in nineteen sixty three.

581
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:38.559
Regarded as one of America's most haunted places, ghosts have

582
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:42.719
been widely reported ever since, even by staff members of

583
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:47.000
the National Park Service, which now operates that property. Ghosts

584
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:51.199
have been sighted and along with strange sounds screams, yells, weeping,

585
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:55.599
and even eerie music. And that brings us to number

586
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:59.119
one on this list. And there is no debate here.

587
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:03.519
All over Google, everybody says this is the most haunted

588
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:09.599
It is Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by

589
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:13.519
Quakers in eighteen twenty nine, who envisioned the Stone Castle

590
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:18.480
as a place where criminals could become penitent for their crimes,

591
00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:22.599
hence the name penitentiary. That's where that comes from. The

592
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:26.480
prison was a place of total isolation. Inmates were confined

593
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:30.639
in windowless rooms and allowed no contact with any living person.

594
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.320
Many of them were driven insane by the solitude. Punishments

595
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:38.360
for breaking the rules were extreme, and suicides became common.

596
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:41.880
Solitary confinement was ended in the eighteen seventies, and a

597
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.599
century later the prison was closed down. Since that time,

598
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:51.400
ghost stories and paranormal encounters they become commonplace. Apparitions had

599
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:56.760
been seen, mysterious footsteps heard, and strange sounds reported, and

600
00:36:56.880 --> 00:37:00.679
believe it or not, Eastern State Penitentiary is now like

601
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:03.679
a haunted house, like they do it up for Halloween,

602
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.199
and it's something you want to take a trip to

603
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.159
look any Pennsylvania listeners out there, let me know if

604
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:13.559
you've ever been to Eastern State Penitentiary, tell me about it.

605
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.559
We'll pass it on to the rest of the listeners.

606
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:24.199
So that is your top ten America's most haunted prisons

607
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.920
in jail. And I got one more cool thing for

608
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:31.480
you today on Halloween, and that is I'm going to

609
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:35.719
give you a list of terrifying convicts who committed murders

610
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.760
on Halloween night. And these are in no particular order,

611
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:43.599
but I'm going to tell you about two friends, Leslian

612
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:49.760
Mazario and Adrian Asagna, and they were stabbed late one

613
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:54.559
Halloween night. Those two and their friend Lorne Menzina, we're

614
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:59.199
busy handing out candy the trick or treaters in Napa, California.

615
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.880
On Halloween Night of two thousand and four, at around

616
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:06.199
eleven pm. The three women went to bed, not knowing

617
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:11.079
there will be one more visitor that night. Means awoke

618
00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:14.079
to a scream in the upstairs bedroom, ran out of

619
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:21.760
the house and drove away, leaving her two friends behind. Sadly,

620
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.239
those two friends were stabbed to death upstairs. Eric Matthew Copel,

621
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:31.000
a friend of one of the victims, eventually turned himself

622
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:33.679
in and confessed to the murdyrs, though he never told

623
00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:38.639
anyone his motive. No One Copel is serving a life

624
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:45.119
sentence without the possibility of parole. In nineteen seventy nine,

625
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.599
Shirley Ledford was hitchhiking home from a Halloween party back

626
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.000
in the seventies, you hitchhiked when two men picked her up.

627
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:56.360
They were in a dingy van. Little did she know.

628
00:38:56.559 --> 00:39:00.519
The two men were known as the Toolbox Killers. Lawrence

629
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.000
Betaker and Roy Norris were famous for picking up female

630
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:09.840
hitchhikers and torturing them with tools typically found in a toolbox.

631
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:13.960
They often took pictures of the victims during their slayings.

632
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:19.039
After torturing Ledford, they dropped her body on a stranger's lawn,

633
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:24.760
and Leedford became the pay's fifth and final victim after

634
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:28.840
a friend turned them in. Betaker was sentenced to death

635
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.639
but died in twenty nineteen of natural causes, and Norris,

636
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:37.079
who cooperated during the investigation, was given forty five years

637
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.239
to life. And We'll go back to Halloween of nineteen

638
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:44.440
seventy five and fifteen year old Martha Moxley left her

639
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:48.159
Connecticut home to attend a costume party on Halloween Mourning,

640
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:51.880
she was found dead in the backyard, beaten to death

641
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.000
by a golf club. Twenty five years later, a guy

642
00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:59.440
by the name of Michael Skagel, who was also fifteen

643
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:02.039
at the time the slang, was convicted of the murder

644
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:05.800
and sent usd to twenty years to life in prison. However,

645
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.440
he maintained his innocence and on May fourth of twenty eighteen,

646
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:14.519
the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated his conviction, and in twenty

647
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:19.039
twenty the case was actually reopened. And the next one

648
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:21.639
I'm going to tell you about I remember very well.

649
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.800
This happened in nineteen ninety two and it was really

650
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:28.880
close to home in New Orleans where a Japanese exchange

651
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:33.119
student never made it to his Halloween party. And if

652
00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:36.320
you're a Louisiana lessoner, most of you are probably familiar

653
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:41.920
with this. When Yoshihiro Hattori, a Japanese exchange student, went

654
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.519
out on Halloween ninety in nineteen ninety two, he was

655
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.320
heading to a party in New Orleans, but he wasn't

656
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:51.719
familiar with the neighborhood he was in. Ha Tori struggled

657
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.559
to find the address to the event, and when He

658
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.440
eventually thought he had found the house the Halloween party

659
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.119
was at. He knocks on the door, he doesn't get

660
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.000
an answer, so he walks back towards his car. Suddenly

661
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.719
the door of the house opened and Toy said, we

662
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.440
are here for the party. But the man in the

663
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.320
doorway shot atory with a revolver. Now it turns out

664
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:18.559
Toori was at the wrong of dress, and when police

665
00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:21.800
questioned the homeowner, a guy by the name of Rodney Pears,

666
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.880
he claimed he had been scared and he thought the

667
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.280
student was trespassing on his property with criminal intent. Pears

668
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.800
was charged with manslaughter, but invoked what's done as the

669
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:37.400
Castle Doctor, in which Americans can claim they have the

670
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:41.000
right to apply lethal means to protect their homes. And

671
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:43.719
believe it or not, he was found not guilty by

672
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:47.320
a jury, and I didn't agree with that decision at all.

673
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.280
I remember being disgusted by that. Sometimes I feel like

674
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:56.480
he's still in America. Hatori's father told the news someday

675
00:41:56.559 --> 00:41:59.119
he'll be back home. I say to myself, what a

676
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.280
sad story. And I'm gonna tell you. Look, I'm the

677
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.159
first one to say protect your freaking property and all

678
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:09.119
of that stuff but this was not that situation. This

679
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:11.519
kid was not armed. He went to the door. He

680
00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:13.840
was walking back to his car and turned around and said, hey,

681
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:18.000
we're here for the party. It was just awful, horrible situation.

682
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:20.840
But we'll bring you to the next one. We're gonna

683
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.760
tell you about Peter Fabano. He died and what police

684
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.559
said was a crime of passion in the late fifties

685
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:31.559
on Halloween night, this was actually nineteen fifty seven, so

686
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:37.599
him and his wife Betty Fabiana, they go to sleep

687
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.480
and they thought they were finished with trick or truders.

688
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:42.960
But in the middle of the night, the doorbell to

689
00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:47.119
their La home rings. Peter got out of bed and

690
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:50.039
brought candy to the door, thinking it's a trick or truder.

691
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.480
On the doorstep was a woman wearing a mask. She

692
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:56.280
raised her hand, which was in a paper bag, and

693
00:42:56.519 --> 00:43:00.639
shot him in the chest. He died instantly. Police eventually

694
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:04.199
arrested a woman by the name of Joan Rebel, who

695
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:10.519
reportedly had a sexual relationship with Peter's wife, Betty. It's

696
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.840
believed Rebel talked another woman, Goldland Piser, into murdering Peter.

697
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:19.599
Rebel was convicted of second degree murder along with piser

698
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.840
and was sentenced to five years to life in prison.

699
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:27.239
Five years to life. Haven't heard that one too much.

700
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:31.800
Both women were later released and Betty was never tried

701
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:35.639
for any connection in her husband's death. And we'll go

702
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:40.920
to nineteen eighty one. On Halloween night and sister Tadna

703
00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:44.760
Benn's body was found naked in a convent in Texas.

704
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.960
The other nuns in the house, they noticed a broken

705
00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:50.960
window in the community room, so they called the police

706
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:55.599
and authorities found Ben's clothing and a knife under the bed. Meanwhile,

707
00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.760
in autopsy revealed the numb was stabbed, strangled, and sexually

708
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.679
ast It's horrible. Police arrested a man who lived across

709
00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:06.639
the street by the name of Johnny Garrett after a

710
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.599
witness saw him running from the convent that evening. He

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was convicted and sentenced to death in nineteen ninety two.

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His last words get this were reported to be I'd

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like to thank my family for loving me and taking

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care of me. And the rest of the world can

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kiss my ass. Well, Johnny Garrett, you can kiss my ass?

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How about that?

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And we're going to go to New York for the

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next one. And look, Halloween night trick or treat. Right

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might get your house rolled, you might get it egged, whatever.

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In this case, throwing eggs on Halloween night, which is

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typically known as a harmless prank, but in nineteen ninety eight,

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it turned deadly. A twenty one year old Bronx residence

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by the name of Carl Jackson and his girlfriend. They

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go to pick up their son.

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From a party.

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Teenagers throw eggs at the car and piss me off too.

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Jackson gets out of the car to yell at the pranksters.

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In response, one of the teenagers pulls out a gun

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and shoots Jackson through the head.

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He dies instantly.

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Seventeen year old Curtis Stirling was charged with second degree

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murder and criminal possession of firearm. He was convicted and

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is serving twenty years in prison. He receives a card

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in the mail every Halloween that reads, I'm glad you're

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still there. Get this from Jackson's mother. That's pretty sweet.

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Let me tell you about William Lesky. He killed his

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family members on Halloween. In twenty ten, sixteen year old

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Devin Griffin. He comes home on Halloween to play video

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game after attending church and spending the previous night sleeping out,

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He noticed that his Michigan home was a little bit

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too quiet, so he goes to check on his family members.

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Griffin proceeded to find his stepfather in bed covered in blood.

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When police arrived, they found two more bodies, Griffin's mother

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and Griffin's brother. At least eventually learned the murderer was

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Griffin's stepbrother, William Lisky. Liskey beat his older stepbrother Derrick

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Griffin with a hammer, shot his father, William Lesky, five times,

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and then sexually assaulted and shot his stepmother, Susan Liskey.

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Liskey pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder to

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avoid the death penalty, but was found dead in his

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jail cell in twenty fifteen from a self inflicted wound,

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and just quickly one more, a nineteen eighty one Halloween

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night brutal killing that remains unsolved. Photographer Ronald Sisman and

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Smith College student Elizabeth Plattsman were beaten in their Manhattan apartment.

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This was in nineteen eighty one on Halloween Night. Before

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being shot dead, the apartment was completely ransacked, but nothing

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was missing, and to this day that remains unsolved. I

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want to wish every single one of you a happy Halloween.

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I hope you enjoyed this episode. Look for some big

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time stuff to about to hit for Bloody Angola Podcast.

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Stick with us, it's gonna be good and until next time,

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I'm Jim Chapman, your host of Bloody Angola, a podcast

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of one and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's bloodiest present.

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Peace, a Wall.

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Street line, shackle and change. It's calling my name, there

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is no mercy and this being a tentery juice as

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the hull string game Rangle three, I'm here.

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For if I'm here to die.

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Inside these walls, inside the wild

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And when theirs I know it's abody Angle, Obody Angle.